Veeam has just released a fresh version of Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure v3. In this release, a lot of features and capabilities have already been included to provide on the promise of true cloud-native data protection.

Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure is really a cloud-native backup solution that delivers enterprise-grade backup consistency to the Microsoft Azure public cloud. Packed filled with capabilities and features, Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure is really a element of the Veeam-centralized data management suite.

Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure v3 contains many new features and key enhancements.

Azure SQL

Increasingly more customers are embracing managed database services to supply capabilities with their businesses. Simplifying the management and deployment of traditional SQL environments, Azure SQL is really a managed database service fully. While simplifying the management of the databases is paramount to the uptake of the ongoing services, protecting the data within these databases has turned into a challenge. With any cloud service, the info protection may be the responsibility of the buyer always, even though the provider may provide an SLA for uptime, the data itself may be the concern always. Corruption, ransomware attacks, or accidental deletion of the data should always be protected against even.

With Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure, now you can protect your Azure SQL data. Simply creating an Azure SQL backup policy lets you configure backups of the managed Azure SQL databases. With in-built staging capabilities to backups process, greater control is handed to the backup operators. Staging servers configured in Microsoft Azure may be used to process the database backups better.

Data retention could be configured for another amount of configurations, from daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly, and also, backup archiving could be configured to lessen the storage charges for longer-term data retention. Much like most of Veeam’s cloud products, the in-built cost estimation wizard gives help with the expense of the backups, including giving help with storage costs and suggesting alternatives.

Azure Key Vault support

With Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure, now you can use Azure Key Vault keys to encrypt the backup data at rest within an object storage backup repository. These keys are manufactured in the Microsoft Azure console and used to encrypt the backup data at rest then. This gives secure backup storage of the info in the Azure Blob storage repositories.

Azure Archive Storage

Cloud-based object storage can be an easy low-cost solution to store backup data. With Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure , support for Azure Blob archive has been one of them release. Providing low-cost, long-term data retention for backup data being stored in the Microsoft Azure public cloud. It really is easily configurable from within the backup policy scheduling wizard by selecting an archive tier repository and defining the retention periods.

Summary

Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure v3 contains some significant enhancements to supply true cloud-native data protection. While these features are really significant for cloud-based data protection, for a genuine number of customers that are surviving in a multi-cloud world, a far more centralized approach is necessary. Than having multiple standalone products protecting different platforms rather, Veeam provides integration into Veeam Backup & Replication to permit customers to manage almost all their platforms centrally, whether on premises, such as for example VMware and Hyper-V vSphere, or in the cloud with Microsoft Azure, Google or aws Cloud Platform.